(Re)balancing my fluids
Pray, dear liver, fill my veins with blood, deliver hope dilute the phlegm that dulls my breathing, brain and lungs. Dearest blood please fight the yellow bile raging in my […]
Pray, dear liver, fill my veins with blood, deliver hope dilute the phlegm that dulls my breathing, brain and lungs. Dearest blood please fight the yellow bile raging in my […]
It’s better being apart than being a part of the mess you’re calling your life. It’s better being apart cause keeping the distance is my defense, excuse and resistance against […]
The scent of blooming blackthorn haunts me cause when after April, May might smile but sun casts wintry shadows; while apple blooms are falling at the mercy of a wind […]
Lightness of being darkly believing in two finally seeing nodding, agreeing with you living and ageing loving is freeing Joyfully beaming no longer dreaming I knew winter is gleaming sleeping […]
Sinjar still the same, the road as dusty as before, even the reek of wormwood as nauseating, but when Nisreen approached their house she knew that everything had changed. It’s […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis